Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts published in June 2021

The victory heuristic

The purpose of this missive is to give you a simple method that will accelerate your success in every endeavor. If you apply this discipline consistently, you will see godlike results within days and weeks. Said…

The email structure that makes emails work

The purpose of this missive is to help you stop writing emails like a headless chicken and empower you to leverage email for success in every aspect of life. Use this email structure for absolutely everything…

Success with confidence

The purpose of this missive is to help you cultivate genuine confidence. There is a special brand of idiocy floating around which will tell you that confidence comes with material success. You gain experience and expertise.…

Out for blood

The purpose of this missive is to put you in charge of your attitude and emotions in a very specific way. It’s a discipline of mind that will serve you for a lifetime. Some of this…

Narrative and Character: how to assess relationships

The purpose of this missive is to empower you to draw strength from your relationships – family, business, romantic, personal and impersonal. It takes effort and discipline to understand and apply viciously, but you can literally…

Yes but also

Don’t be a “yes but also” person. Be a “yes or no” person. Stop trying to give me 1,000 reasons why you’re right. Give me 2-3 reasons max, and they better be reasons I CARE ABOUT.…

Should I get vaccinated? (AMA)

I have better things to talk about than the wuhan, but people have been asking and I want to deal with this once and for all. Here’s the most recent subscriber question: I was wondering where…

Vision and negativity

I’ve been brainwashing you into developing and using a Vision of Yourself. One huge power of Vision is that it allows you to get forward momentum even from the negative feedback you get. When you have…

The salesmaster’s purpose

The purpose of this missive is to empower you to make people come back for more. None of this is rocket embroidery. Nor does it require a master’s degree in interpretive dance to get it. Yet…

Decision

The purpose of this missive is to help you learn to be decisive and to act from a position of decision. “I don’t know how to make good decisions.” “I can’t decide.” “What’s the right decision?”…

The obvious way to start building self-esteem

Many subscriber questions and issues that come up in my advisory work relate to the same thing – self-respect, self-esteem, self-first or whatever you call it in your neck of the words these days. Gravitas doesn’t…

Why do you sleep?

The purpose of this missive is to outline some actionable reasons why you might need to sleep more than a healthier version of you. Excellent question: Do you have any tips on sleeping less but remaining…